She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.
Charles PortisTags: philanthropy
Fundraising is an extreme sport!
Marc A. PitmanTags: philanthropy charity fundraising nonprofit
Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
Jeffrey RasleyTags: memoir philanthropy mountains biography mountaineering tibet nepal expeditions himalayas three-cups-of-tea trekking
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Angela CarterTags: philanthropy
The world order needs a major overhaul.
George SorosTags: philanthropy distrust partisan distrustte
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
AberjhaniTags: empowerment inspiration grace hope spirituality motivation television personal-growth philanthropy gratitude celebrities altruism coaching positive-motivation world-suicide-prevention-day famous-authors famous-poets oprah-winfrey blog-quotes quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities
I will help--but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.
Sharman Apt RussellTags: philanthropy
Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.
Valaida FullwoodTags: inspirational photography arts history culture philanthropy heritage
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
Nicholas D. KristofTags: science politics feminism philanthropy women-s-rights aids women-s-issues
It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections
Paul JohnsonTags: liberalism philanthropy
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